July 18, 2011 - Moon Society outgoing President Peter Kokh has prepared an Annual
Report
on the State of the
Society for our 4th annual membership meeting to be
held on Wednesday, August
10th. Per our 2008 bylaws revision, this meeting is to be
held on the second Wednesday evening of the
month after Society elections are finalized, usually early August.
The above report requires a member username and password to access, the same set you use to download MMM pdf files
If you do not know or remember your username and password, available to
current member only, contact president@moonsociety.org
and put "password" in the subject line.

Save
Wednesday Evening, August 10th!

The meeting will be online, in the ASI-MOO special chat room
environment,

9-11
pm ET -- 8-10 pm CT -- 7-9 pm MT -- 6-8 pm PT

We realize
that this time window will not be convenient for many members.
But neither
would any other window. Why this particular
window?
This is the time
and day slot in which the Society’s Leadership Council, Management
Commitee, and Board of Directors regularly meets.

Practice now! If your schedule makes attendance at this event possible,
and you have never been on the ASI-MOO, you will save yourself a lot of
frustration that evening, if you first practice loging on. It is quite
simple.

5 Wait for the window to fully open. Some browsers are faster than
others. Below the preliminary introductory text, you will see a line,
below which you can type.

6 Type these three words: connect (your) username password all in lower
case, each word separated by a space with no quotation marks.
Hit
carriage return

7 You will find yourself in the “Commons” Now you want to go to the
“Auditorium” where the Members Meeting will be held. The instructions
in the Commons say that the Auditorium is “NorthWest” so type
NorthWest without quotes and with capitals as indicated, then hit
carriage Return, and you should be in.

Most likely problem you will have is not knowing your username and
password. If this turns out to be the case, just contact me at president@moonsociety.org
and tell me what your problem is. If you prefer an answer by phone,
give me your phone # and best times to call in your email. We’ll get
you in, but do not wait until the last minute as I will be busy with
other things!

NOTE: This page is in the www.moonsociety.org/members/
directory.only those with member
usernames and passwords will be able to access this directory

Publicizing this Meeting

And this notice has been
posted on the
Artemis-List as well as sent by email to all members, current and
former, with
current email addresses in our database. If you have changed your email
address, do call that to our attention! You many change it yourself at www.moonsociety.org/mymoon/
though you will need your username and password to access that page.
Otherwise simply email your current email address to secretary@moonsociety.org

Meeting Structure

The meeting will be chaired by incoming President Ken Murphy.

After a review of the contents of the Annual Report, the floor will be
open to questions from members. Members who plan to ask questions are
invited to submit them in advance to president@moonsociety.org as this
will help in bundling together related questions and responses.
However, this is not necessary and spontaneous questions are welcome.

Questions can be about problems with membership processing, response to
problems, current projects and new project ideas, the
overall direction of the society and suggestions in this regard,
membership benefits, how to grow the society in numbers, name
recognition, and project output, etc.

The Annual Report, as
prepared by the president, may cover;

Recent
bylaws changes

2011 elections results

Our Vision, Mission, and Strategy

Existing and proposed new projects

Our website (s, if you include Lunarpedia.org)

Moon Miners’ Manifesto

Our affiliations and collaborations

The
treasurers report

Membership report

Awards of recognition for significant service to the
Society

Our plans to make the Society ever more effective, and
more.

To the Curious: -
If you are reading this and are not a current member, by all means do
join or rejoin. We will be most happy to benefit from your ideas and
energies and initiatives.

A Learning Experience:
While we have held three previous annual Membership Meetings before, from 2008 to 2010, this process is still a “leaning experience.” If you have
ideas for features that
should be included, don’t wait to share them with us. We want this
upcoming annual meeting to be as comprehensive as possible.

Quarterly Town Meetings:
We introduced Town Meetings, first on the ASI-MOO, then on Skype, three
years ago. The intention was to do this quartterly. But the first
meeting was so dynamic and productive that we started meeting monthly.
As attendance soon dwindled, we went back to a Quarterly schedule, on
the second Wednesdays of February, May, and November. The August 2nd Wednesday slot is
reserved for the Annual Membership Meeting.